Example sentences of "and [noun sg] [verb] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So Gloria and Dot went back down the area steps to their room , leaving the sunshine behind . |
| 2 | But they represent a great slice of gardening history ( no plants , no gardens ) and provide us with a rich , exciting and often colourful tapestry of adventure and discovery going back at least several hundred years . |
| 3 | A sprightly 81 years old , this English engineer and inventor looks back with satisfaction on a lifetime as an explorer of the heavens , the Earth , and the limits of the technically feasible . |
| 4 | The N.C. O. handed over the papers he had brought and after clicking his heels and saluting went back into the station without looking at me . |
| 5 | ‘ The de Sciorto name and title goes back to the sixteenth century . |
| 6 | A SENIOR director of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development flew back from Budapest last night to assess damage to the bank 's London headquarters after Friday night 's IRA bomb explosion . |
| 7 | Abruptly , the all-pervading background noise in the TARDIS altered , and when Ace and Petion dashed back to the console room , they found the time rotor grinding to a halt . |
| 8 | It drifts back up to join the clouds and sweetness comes back to the day . |
| 9 | The answer is that after mating they produce a tiny mobile larvae totally different to the adult this might drift for miles on ocean current before settling into the fixed adult form Down Norwick power station in North Wales , generates the electricity by pump storage , in off peak hours thousands of gallons of water are pumped from a lower lake to an upper lake , when the demand for electricity is high bowels are opened and water falls back through turbine to the lower lake again , this generates the power To ensure that the lower lake would never flood the was diverted through mile long tunnel in the mountain side , no one knew for certain how the salmon , the trout and even rarer that used to migrate up the old river would cope with the tunnels , pitch darkness and slow flowing water . |
| 10 | Thus progress always overreaches itself and mankind falls back into a new barbarism . |
| 11 | She glimpsed smooth skin , but the blood and dirt flooded back in . |
| 12 | Bluster about morning hate and advice to go back to Adolph got a maddeningly cool reply . |
| 13 | And word gets back to apostles in Jerusalem . |
| 14 | Over the next two hundred yards she slowed down again , her misery and inertia crowding back upon her , her loneliness embracing her . |
| 15 | They represent a continuity of worship and music stretching back to a period well before the Reformation . |
| 16 | The fisher girls were paid pennies for packing the barrels but this was still enough , if they were lucky in health and spirit , to buy bonnets and lace to take back to Lewis at the end of the season for dreamy bottom drawers . |
| 17 | Sweat began to dry and strength seeped back into my limbs . |
| 18 | It takes some time , and a few false tries ( you may well ask why a solitary hoopoe bird is even now patrolling the Solent with the sacred shamir-stone in its beak ) but , eventually , the proper chapter and verse comes back to me . |
| 19 | The link between ratepaying and voting went back to the foundation of the present local government system . |
| 20 | The information would be formally reported to an appropriate service committee or board , along with a progress report briefly showing land and property brought back into use each year . |
| 21 | The possible effect from 1994–5 onwards of the lifting of the cap on QR income has encouraged the University to prepare plans which , if its assumptions about future funding levels are realised , will allow it to reinforce the physical infrastructure of the University as well as funding academic developments , while bringing the Income and Expenditure Account back into a cumulative surplus by 31 July 1996 . |
| 22 | HarperCollins and Twin step back from Blinky Bill showdown |
| 23 | Sarah carried her cup of coffee and cheese roll back to her chosen table and settled to work . |
| 24 | He would n't get up to Jubilee Wood before his Mum and Dad got back from work . |
| 25 | However , they then defied most of the laws of position and possession to come back from 15–9 down , draw level and force the match into extra time . |
| 26 | His gargantuan repast seemed to have put The Fat Controller in a better mood and avuncularity seeped back into his tones the further we got away from the pizzeria . |
| 27 | And the cold war procedures , routines and language sprang back into action . |
| 28 | And time boiled back into being as the touch of his lips sent a shaft of fire down to sear her inside . |
| 29 | You have had a long life of service and time to look back on it and if I did not know how your arthritis troubles you and with what difficulty you pen your kind notes I would ask you to help me in this . |